Opening - Around the body, the earth sews carefully. Duo show Guadalupe Vilar & Olah Gyarfas

Name: Opening - Around the body, the earth sews carefully. Duo show Guadalupe Vilar & Olah Gyarfas
Start: 2025-11-06T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-06T22:00:00+02:00
Location: 29 Baiculesti Street, 013193 Bucharest, Romania

Schedule

Thu Nov 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

29 Baiculesti Street, 013193 Bucharest, Romania | Bucharest, BU

Sector 1 Gallery warmly invites you to the opening of Around the body, the earth sews carefully, an exhibition featuring artists Guadalupe Vilar and Olah Gyarfas, curated by Norbert Filep, on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 7 PM.
Since the most ancient times, the construction of the world and the order in which it was conceived have been articulated according to the measure of the human body. The primordial matrix of the new world lies deeply rooted within this architecture of the flesh. Everything depends on the actions of the humanoid, on the dimensions through which complex movements unfold in everyday life, on the precise analysis of different typologies and races, and on the standards created around them to either protect or dismantle the fragile and ephemeral structure of the human body.
Somewhere, within this tumultuous vortex of anthropological conjunctures, clothing delineates with exactitude the need to shield the fragility of the human body. The contour around which this protective action has been woven throughout history — ultimately sketching the very paradigm of fashion — continues to guide us today, in accordance with the anthropometric specifications of the human body. Thus, the shaping imposed upon different materials of textile origin is articulated in close dialogue with the logic of the body, placing the human figure as the central paradigm for garment design.
Yet, when the overabundance of sartorial overproduction or the obsession with ceaselessly generating pieces meant to serve exclusively in relation to the structures of the body activates mechanisms of curiosity, generating an impulse to explore new territories that leaves behind the conventional zone of the utilitarian. In this way, material migrates into new models of thought, exploration, and renunciation of its practical limits, transforming the fabric into a process of re-interpreting the triad of body, earth, and culture.
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GUADALUPE VILAR , 1995 (Argentina)
Born in Argentina and based in London, Guadalupe Vilar is a fashion designer and spatial artist whose practice explores the intersection of art, sustainability, and textiles. Working with discarded and sustainable materials, she creates sculptural pieces that transcend utility, embodying fictional narratives about future societies seeking to reverse ecological collapse. Her ongoing series Desvestida (Undressed) reimagines clothing as autonomous entities, while her broader practice explores deconstruction and reusing materials as a way to give new meaning and value to discarded objects. By researching sustainable alternatives to harmful, plastic-based materials, Vilar aims to raise environmental awareness and expand collective consciousness through art.
GYÁRFÁS OLÁH, 1975, Miercurea-Ciuc (Romania)
Gyárfás Oláh is a visual artist whose practice draws on folk traditions, mythology, and the sculptural qualities of natural and found materials. Reusing textiles, hay, wood, or stone, he invests each work with the history and processes of its medium, often evoking ghosts, archaic creatures, or hybrid forms that move between myth and memory. With a background in fashion design, Oláh merges art and craft into sculptures and installations that function as material and spiritual recycling—embodiments of both protective and otherworldly presences.

The two artists share a common concern for reinterpreting textile material as a plastic medium, transforming it into visual compositions that interact with space like an extended body – a body that is not worn, but rather dresses, modulates, and activates the place where it is displayed. The result of their collaboration is an exploration of the boundary between design and art, materialized in hybrid compositions.

This dialogue unfolds across two exhibitions curated by Norbert Filep and jointly supported by MyGallery (Madrid) and Sector 1 Gallery (Bucharest).

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Încă din cele mai vechi timpuri, construcția lumii și ordinea în care aceasta a fost gândită s-a articulat în funcție de măsura corpului uman. Matricea primordială a noii lumi zace adânc rădăcinată în această arhitectura a trupului. Toate depind de acțiunile umanoidului, de dimensiunile în care mișcările complexe operează în viața de zi cu zi, de analiza precisă a diferitelor tipologii și rase, de standardele create în jurul acestora pentru a proteja sau a distruge structura fragilă și efemeră a corpului uman.
Undeva, în acest vârtej tumultuos al conjuncturilor de natură antropologică, vestimentația circumscrie cu exactitate nevoia de a proteja fragilitatea corpului uman. Conturul în jurul căruia această acțiune protectivă s-a țesut de-a lungul istoriei, desenând într-un final paradigma modei, acționează și azi conform specificațiilor antropometrice ale ființei umane. Astfel, informarea produsă asupra diferitelor materiale de origine textilă se articulează îndeaproape cu logica corpului, plasând figura umană ca paradigmă centrală pentru designul vestimentar.
Însă, atunci când prea-plinul unei supraproducții vestimentare sau obsesia de a genera constant piese care servesc exclusiv în raport cu structurile corpului uman activează mecanisme ale curiozității, imboldul de a explora noi teritorii lasă în urmă zona convențională a utilitarului. Astfel, materialul migrează în noi modele de gândire, explorare și dezicere de limitele practice ale acestuia, transformând țesătura într-un procedeu de re-interpretare a trinomului corp, pământ, cultură.